Rock Around The Clock (ver. 1) by Bill Haley - Piano Sheets and Free Sheet Music

Bill Haley (pronounced ['he?li?]) (July 6, 1925 February 9, 1981) was one of the first American rock and roll musicians. He is credited by many with first popularizing this form of music in the mid-1950s with his group Bill Haley & His Comets and their hit song "Rock Around the Clock". Bill Haley is also known as the Godfather of Rock n Roll. "Rock Around the Clock" is a 12-bar-blues-based song from 1952, written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers (the latter under the pseudonym "Jimmy De Knight"). The song is ranked #158 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Although it was probably not the first rock and roll record, nor was it the first successful record of the genre (Haley had American chart success with "Crazy Man, Crazy" in 1953 and "Shake, Rattle and Roll" in 1954, a year before "Rock Around the Clock" became a success), it is considered by many to be the song that put rock and roll on the map in America and around the world. With lyrics such as "Put your glad rags on, join me, Hon We'll have some fun when the clock strikes one" and "When the clock strikes two, three and four .